If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do.

Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.

For his enemies' sake, the good boy, the really dangerous man, fights to never fight again; whereas the bad boy, the proud man, fights that he might never fight again.

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

On the one hand you had people constantly fighting Hell; on the other, you had people constantly fighting Hell on earth.

A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.

The hardest and hardiest, heartiest defense comes squarely from where it can empathize with the artiest and sharpest, smartest offense.